Wyoming Deer · Hunt Area 105 Beartooth

Wyoming Hunt Area 105 covers 228,962 acres and lies 33 miles north-west of Cody and 45 miles west of Byron. 83% of it is public land, mostly national forest (71%) and BLM (9%). In 2025, 347 people hunted mule deer here and took 114, a 33% success rate. Its most applied-for hunt, 105-1, put up 4 nonresident tags in the 2026 draw for 61 first-choice applicants, and the last tag went to someone with 19 points.

NR Tags, 2026
56

5 licenses

Applicants
108

first choice, NR

Hunter Success
33%

2025, mule deer

Public Land
83%

71% Forest Service

Size
358 mi²

228,962 acres

105
33%hunter success 2025 · 347 hunters, 114 deer

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Best Bets at 0 Points

Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2026 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.

Every License in Hunt Area 105

90–100% 50–89% 10–49% 1–9% under 1% fewer than 5 tags: one applicant swings it
105-1 Regular 2% (small sample) 19 ▲7
Special 0% (small sample) 19 ▲8
Landowner 100% 0
105-8 Reduced price 100% —
Landowner reduced price 100% —

First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2026 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.

Draw results: WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report; WGFD 2026 Demand Report and 2 more, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.

If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): Regular $410.50 ($389 to apply) · Special $1,236.50 ($1,215 to apply) · Reduced price $70.50 ($49 to apply) · Landowner $36.50 ($15 to apply) · Landowner reduced price $36.50 ($15 to apply). Open Jan 2 – Jun 1, 2027 (expected). Full fee breakdown.

Harvest

Mule Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 347 114 33%
2024 382 139 36%
2023 254 91 36%
2022 307 90 29%
2021 255 83 33%

White-tailed Deer

Year Hunters Deer Success
2025 176 61 35%
2024 195 70 36%
2023 122 49 40%
2022 159 68 43%
2021 100 30 30%
2025 by LicenseHuntersDeerSuccess
Mule deer · 25 licenses 21 21 100%
Mule deer 326 93 28%
White-tailed deer · 25 licenses 2 0 0%
White-tailed deer · 75 licenses 60 31 52%
White-tailed deer 135 30 22%

2025 split: archery 2 (2%), firearm 112 (98%) · residents 105 from 302 hunters, nonresidents 9 from 45 hunters

What Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Wyoming's figures are estimates from a voluntary post-season survey of license holders, extrapolated to every license issued — not a count of animals checked in. Source: WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest…; WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report; WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report.

The Ground

National Forest 162,287 ac 71%
Private 39,387 ac 17%
BLM 21,322 ac 9%
State land 3,508 ac 2%
Other public 1,692 ac <1%
County or city land 69 ac <1%
National Park Service 4 ac <1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency.

▸ Sources 14
  1. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  2. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  3. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  4. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  5. WGFD 2026 Demand Report draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
  6. WGFD 2026 License Fee List fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  7. WGFD 2026 Game and Fish Commission Chapter 44 fees, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  8. WGFD 2025 Mule Deer & White-Tailed Deer Harvest… harvest, area description, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  9. WGFD 2024 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  10. WGFD 2023 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  11. WGFD 2022 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  12. WGFD 2021 Deer Harvest Report harvest, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  13. WGFD 2026 Deer Hunt Areas boundary, retrieved Aug 31, 2026
  14. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office 2026 BLM WY Surface Management Agency land ownership, retrieved Aug 31, 2026

About These Numbers

Odds are from the 2026 draw, the latest on file, computed from Wyoming Game and Fish Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.

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